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On 16 October 2012 15:54, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 11:47 +0100, Andrew Welch wrote: > >> xmlns:c="config" > > This is still, of course, a URI, but now it is a relative URL. > > Please don't do this. > > Ah, for the reasons that John has said. > > It looks nice but it does *not* have the meaning you seem to think it > does. Hmm, I should add that to the course notes I'm writing. > > One problem is that you can create non-portable documents - software is > free (unfortunately) to resolve "config" as a relative URI reference > using the base URI of the containing resource, so that the actual > namespace URI in the document would vary depending on the document's > location. ....which is clearly madness, surely, right? > Another is software that will go use that relative URI to fetch a schema > of some sort. I also really wouldnt want that happening either... > I was disappointed, as I'd always hoped we (the XMLers) would define a > catalog of some sort that could be located at a namespace URI and used > to locate schemas, DTDs, stylesheets, documentation, entity definitions, > code fragments and so forth. RDDL-style. But the consensus was that such > things are neither forbidden nor encouraged, and relative URIs should > not be used as a namespace name. why wedge it in with namespaces? Why not some other xml: prefixed attribute? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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